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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:13:08PM -0700, jerry.hoemann@hp.com wrote:

[..]
> > Is it possible to fix it the way hpa suggested?
>
> I think the changes to enable ,high is a step in the
> right direction. its an improvement But it is still green.
>
> We are having lots more problems w/ upstream kdump than we are having
> w/ the kdump in distros.
>
> So, to answer your question with a slight twist:
>
> Is it possible to back ports lots of green code across multiple
> versions and distros and get a bug free user experiences? I guess so.
>
> is it the right way to go? i personally don't think so.
>
> but hey, others may have a different view.

I agree that backporting a fix/hack to not reserve EFI boot memory on
certain platform is much easier as compared to backporting capability to
boot from higher memory addresses.

I also agree that crashkernel=X,high support is very new and it has yet to
go though a wide spread testing to confirm that it works well with wide
variety of machines. And this also makes a case to stick to crashkernel=X
for older releases and just backport a fix to not reserve EFI boot time
memory.

Thanks
Vivek


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